linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/13] sata: ahci: export ahci_do

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Message-ID: <20170119125229.GA16438@mtj.duckdns.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:52:29 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:     Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Patrick Titiano <ptitiano@...libre.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        arm-soc <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/13] sata: ahci: export ahci_do_hardreset() locally

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:55:24AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2017-01-18 19:28 GMT+01:00 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>:
> > Hello, Bartosz.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 02:19:57PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> >> We need a way to retrieve the information about the online state of
> >> the link in the ahci-da850 driver.
> >>
> >> Create a new function: ahci_do_hardreset() which is called from
> >> ahci_hardreset() for backwards compatibility, but has an additional
> >> argument: 'online' - which can be used to check if the link is online
> >> after this function returns.
> >
> > Please just add @online to ahci_hardreset() and update the callers.
> > Other than that, the sata changes look good to me.
> >
> 
> Are you sure? There are 23 places in drivers/ata/ where the .hardreset
> callback is assigned. I'd prefer not to change the drivers I can't
> test. Besides all other **reset callbacks take three arguments -
> should we really only change one of them for a single driver's needs?

Ah, didn't realize this was the callback, sorry.  What you did is
perfect.  Please disregard my comment.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun